Holy god almighty
 

Someone else please check this out and tell me this is not the greatest thing you have ever heard:

www.myspace.com/ahawkandahacksaw

This is not the greatest thing I have ever heard.

thank you.

You're quite welcome.

This thread regards the music group A Hawk and A Hacksaw, who were founded by Neutral Milk Hotel's drummer, and who take world music to a whole new level. Seriously, this is completely amazing mind-blowing music that anyone open to different styles of music thrown together haphazardly can enjoy.

Here's their self-titled debut (which I haven't heard):

hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=OSEBHNJM

and if anyone is interested in more, I purchased their third album on impulse and it's magnificent and I can upload it if need be.

Hmm...should I move this to the international music section? Seems kinda like your standard Balkan gypsy music...is it all instrumental?

it's not completely instrumental, and to be fair it's an american indie musician going around stealing various regions' native sounds

plus i figure it'll get more attention here.

It's not standard Balkan music though there's quite a bit of electronics and other neat weird stuff that work its way in. I have a few albums and they're pretty good. I think NMH's drummer also did some work on Beirut's album Gulag Orkestar.

Oh ok...it says they're from Hungary tho. All the songs on their myspace page sound like Balkan gypsy music.:-/

Great, Great, Great!

who knew someone from Neutral Milk Hotel could turn out something other than pretentious, overrated crap.

It's not bad.

Here's The Way The Wind Blows, which is a really great album:
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=ESPHKXEI

hey Tom I'll buy you a really big cookie if you start using mediafire instead of megaupload.

What's the difference...?

Mediafire is faster and doesn't have any limits on it.

I have Mega Manager, thus, I use megaupload.

whatever.

Great band! Ex-member of Neutral Milk Hotel, so that is their right of passage for those of you who might be skeptical to check them out.

I just found his myspace after doing a NMH search and I'm loving it and will be grabbing those albums now :). This is soooo good.

Unique but not extreme, I like it.